Jesús Imaz reaches 50 goals in the Ekstraklasa

Jesús Imaz continues to engrave his name in gold letters in the history of the Ekstraklasa. The striker from ilerdense, now at Jagiellonia, scored his 50th goal in the Polish First Division. 50 so many that make him the seventh highest scorer foreigner in the championship only behind Flávio Paixão (93), Miroslav Radovic (66), Igor Angulo (63), Marco Paixão (61), Christian Gytkjaer (55) and Kasper Hämäläinen (54).

Jesús Imaz's 50th goal at the Ekstraklasa was doubly special. Reaching a round figure was joined by the joy of returning to the path of victory, since Jagiellonia had not won in the league since last August 7. Imaz, who had just overcome a minor rib injury, scored the only goal of the match against Lech Poznan, who visited Bialystok as the unbeaten leader. “We desperately needed the points to improve our mood”, Imaz revealed after a meeting that places his team seventh, four points behind the European positions.

Trained in football in Lleida, Jesús Imaz went through his city's club, Llagostera, UCAM Murcia or Cádiz before going to Poland to sign with Wisla Krakow, with whom he scored 14 goals in 47 games. The bad economic moment that the club of the 'White Star' was going through prevented him from rejecting the more than 100,000 euros that Jaga offered for his transfer in January 2019. “I had no doubts that he wanted to play for Jagiellonia,” Imaz told his arrival in Bialystok, where he has reached his footballing peak.

With the Jagiellonia, Jesús Imaz He has played 84 games in which he has scored 36 goals and distributed 11 assists without being a center forward. “I am in the ideal place to show everyone that I am a good footballer,” Imaz said in an interview published in AS. The 31-year-old striker from Lleida is already part of Ekstraklasa history, but his legend can still continue to grow: if he scores 14 more goals, he will surpass Igor Angulo and become the top Spanish scorer in the Polish First Division.